Advance Preparation

Bring an orthography statement on the language.

Are tone marks or accents considered independently? Or are they considered part of a unit? Should backspace remove just the tone, or should it delete the whole unit? Are digraphs considered separate characters or a unit?

Prepare keyboard layout grids for the language

Physical keyboards

Have participants fill out a keyboard grid for both the normal and shift layers for their target language. Here are two different grids to choose from:

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Mobile Keyboards

Two Basic mobile grids + long press list.

Keyman Dev basic training

Create a folder for the project on your hard drive

It is good to maintain a clear file structure. Later you may be submitting your directory with all the files to GitHub.

It is also important to always include the source files with the distribution so that they can be modified and upgraded.

Create a project in Keyman Developer

Save it inside of the directory you created.

Create a keyboard in the project

Note: Keyboard filename should be all lowercase for cross-platform compatibility.